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Article 131 puts consumers holding an individually assessed personal dose under the rehabi … 2005/) that cut it from four to six years; the twenty-gram cannabis ceiling stayed.[@lod] [Quantity limits were set in 1993.](/history/venezuela-personal-dose-1993/)
The personal-use procedure can lead to compulsory rehabilitation, which may involve living … ly.[@court17] The 2014 binding rule opening sentencing alternatives for minor drug cases, the 1993 cut of the possession term, and the 2017 removal of the suspension bar, are traced in the [2014 ruling](/history/venezuela-small-drug-cases-suspended-sentences-2014/), [1993 reform](/history/venezuela-personal-dose-1993/) and the [2017 judgment](/history/venezuela-drug-suspension-bar-struck-2017/).[@court17]
Article 149 includes supplying and distributing drugs among trafficking acts without requi … welve to eighteen years. There is no adult cannabis-gifting exemption in that rule.[@lod] [Supply terms rose in 2010.](/history/venezuela-drug-law-2010/)
Article 130 requires court-ordered rehabilitation for people placed under the consumer pro … ce without residence. The personal dose is assessed individually under article 131.[@lod] [Treatment for users dates to 1984.](/history/venezuela-drug-law-1984/) [Quantity limits were set in 1993.](/history/venezuela-personal-dose-1993/)
No lawful recreational supply route is provided. Unauthorised supply and growing remain criminal under articles 149 and 151.[@lod] [Supply terms rose in 2010.](/history/venezuela-drug-law-2010/)
No licensed production operates: the 2010 law criminalises sowing, growing and supply, and no licensing regime was established in the sources read.[@lod] [Supply terms rose in 2010.](/history/venezuela-drug-law-2010/)
No medical cannabis programme operates: the law provides treatment and rehabilitation for consumers, not patient supply, and unauthorised supply and growing remain criminal.[@lod] [Treatment for users dates to 1984.](/history/venezuela-drug-law-1984/)
Recreational cannabis is fully prohibited. Consumers holding an individually assessed pers … ithin the 20 g band — and trafficking draws eight to twenty-five years by quantity.[@lod] [Quantity limits were set in 1993.](/history/venezuela-personal-dose-1993/) [Supply terms rose in 2010.](/history/venezuela-drug-law-2010/)
No hemp exception operates: seeds, resins and plants fall under the article 151 trafficking offence, with six to ten years for ten plants or 300 g of seed.[@lod] [Holding and growing drew four to eight years from 1964.](/history/venezuela-cannabis-prison-code-1964/)
Article 151 of the 2010 Organic Drug Law is headed "illicit trafficking of seeds, resins a … at contain or reproduce a controlled substance carries twelve to eighteen years in prison.[@lod] For no more than 300 grams of seed or ten plants the penalty is six to ten years.[@lod] [Holding and growing drew four to eight years from 1964.](/history/venezuela-cannabis-prison-code-1964/) [Supply terms rose in 2010.](/history/venezuela-drug-law-2010/)
No lawful recreational club route is provided. Growing cannabis and supplying it to others are covered by the offences in articles 151 and 149.[@lod] [Gathering premises drew prison from 1964.](/history/venezuela-cannabis-prison-code-1964/)
The law provides no recreational supply route or visitor exemption.[@lod] Personal-use cas … 178 provides for expulsion of foreign offenders after serving a criminal sentence.[@lod] [The one-to-two-year term dates to 2005.](/history/venezuela-possession-penalties-2005/)
Figures reported by the government to the UN drugs office record 13,115 kg of herbal cannabis seized in 2024, against 8,416 kg in 2023.[@unodc_szr] The UN publishes them as kilogram equivalents, and countries count seizures differently, s … ted off the Caribbean coast with 2.8 metric tons of marijuana and 8 kg of cocaine.[@ap22] [Three tonnes were seized off Falcón in 2025.](/history/venezuela-falcon-seizure-2025/)
The September 2022 boat interception — 2.8 tons of marijuana, the decade's largest bust — … record 13,115 kg of herbal cannabis seized in 2024, against 8,416 kg in 2023.[@unodc_szr] [Three tonnes were seized off Falcón in 2025.](/history/venezuela-falcon-seizure-2025/)